What I am reinforcing will become more prominent and that which I choose not to reinforce will become less prominent.

George Bernard Shaw According to the standard definition, reinforcement ... The negative will become less powerful when I can consummate the positive. Take fear for an example.

I think a lot of my students, for example, will tell me ... Because—as we know from nudge psychology—that creates a feedback loop of positive reinforcement. We’re more likely to get up ...

Tayag: Applying to college… adolescence is just such an overwhelming part of aging, and the earlier you work on these habits, ...

Many people experience a real, sometimes paralyzing fear of having their own money. This fear can stem from past experiences, ...

Warren Buffett’s simple-sounding advice actually contains a profound insight into how our brains work — and how to make them work better.

This study provides a valuable extension of credibility-based learning research by showing how feedback reliability can distort reward-learning biases in a disinformation-like bandit task. Although ...

Being appreciated by colleagues can help employees cope with negative experiences at work, according to a new study. Researchers found that employees experience 'embitterment' -- an emotional response ...

The current study refers to the immature defense mechanisms of learners. It aims to investigate how immature defense mechanisms among learners, especially those of emerging adults, impair ...

The team also tracked how often mothers interacted with their respective babies (by hovering overhead or touching them, for example), as well as the number of adult males in the vicinity. Statistical ...

Other research interests include improving the psychosexual development of adolescents with ASD; using lag schedules of reinforcement to improve behavioural variability; telehealth and parent training ...

Purpose To explore how time watching TV and playing electronic games at age 5 years each predicts change in psychosocial adjustment in a representative sample of 7 year-olds ... with reduced prosocial ...